July 15, 20214 yr Starting out in the water in the north bay area, nearest airstrip KFVO Started off with the "misty morning" settings tried "light rain" to give it a bit of atmosphere but figured it was too dreary so switched to something a bit sunnier. Because I can . . . Cutting across Mill Valley to the Pacific Nice little cove at the ocean side turning south towards the Golden Gate Not so much "whoo, going under the bridge", just that it was too much effort to get up high enough to go over it Got a couple of nice books about the building of this. Bridge building is always impressive stuff Nice upgrade for the Cessna, shame it's not an amphibious model but nice for those days out on the water. cheers, ANdy Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
July 15, 20214 yr Really clear vivid shots with great image confirmation, framing. A pleasure to view! Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
July 16, 20214 yr This lovely series calls for several remarks from an once resident of Marin County, a long time ago. Typical SF weather would be low fog. I remember driving so many times in the morning over the GGB with the thick fog below me... A good to start would have also been Sausalito which has a floatplane base in real world. Last, I see that you do not have the myriad of sailboats one should see in the bay with a weather like that. Neither do I , cant get them anywhere in the sim ! Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
July 16, 20214 yr Author 1 hour ago, Dominique_K said: This lovely series calls for several remarks from an once resident of Marin County, a long time ago. Cheers Dominique, and I'm a little bit envious. I spent a lot of time in SF and in the valley there, typically Sunnyvale / Santa Clara in the late 1980s through to maybe mid 1990s, but only ever in two or three week bursts. Don't know how I would have felt about actually living there, but it would have been nice to try it for maybe six months. Didn't get much time up that side of the Bay but did visit a few times, and definitely on my favourite place list - lovely feel to the place. I thought about Sausalito but it seems to be one of those places in the sim with un-modelled yachts and moorings sprayed all over the shore surface, so I kept away from it. Sausalito sticks in my memory because I had one trip out there where I combined work with a couple of weeks vacation. THe third week was vacation and we drove up from LA where I'd been working and spent the week overnighting in places like Big Sur, Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz and ending up in SF, and then flew out to New Orleans for the second week of hols. And the book I started reading on that trip was Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour", which starts with a character in Sausalito and then moves to New Orleans. I was somewhat involved in that book very quickly! Which makes me think, maybe time for some exploring in Louisiana next! And thanks too to @John F and @fppilot, glad you enjoyed the shots. Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
July 16, 20214 yr Marin county was a really nice place to live but the weather is cold and humid. Mark Twain once said in jest that the worst winter he ever known was a summer in SF. The ocean is frigid and when the winds blows from the West you get your woollen sweater real quick. I drove many times to Santa Clara Cy along the 280. The weather was really hot in the summer in the valley but driving back in the late afternoon, there were these big ominous clouds rolling from the sea on my left in San Mateo CY. Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
July 18, 20214 yr what a nice set. waves look beautiful 10700kf, 3080 nividia, 32gbs 3400mhz, 1,000 watts power, M.2 DVMe !tb, boot, 1tb 7200rpm, storage, windows 10 home
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